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HIST 1180
TUTR 04
Aaron Miedema
Podcast Analysis Assignment.
Loius Hyman on the History of Consumer Credit, Who Makes Cents podcast from
May 2014 starts its episode from bringing up the most common and popular questions among
people of the second half o

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Ravi Sharma
Tutorial 18
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Job Crisis
3. a) Unemployment is starting to make a name for itself as one of the biggest problems within
Canada. Every year the unemployment rate starts to rise as more and more people fail to

Why Money?
Vincent Reale
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Kevin Guertin
HIST 1180
Thursday October 20, 2016
Reale 1
Although money is not the most important aspect in ones life, it is an essential
component to life in the world today. But how did money come about? Why are we us

Lecture #1, September 8
2016-09-13
Do we Live in a rich or poor world?
- I believe we live in a poor world ran by rich people
Rich and Poor are also metaphors
- Rich: abundance (of wealth, but also immaterial possessions or
qualities), often power, rare,

Vincent Reale
214385777
Kevin Guertin
Thursday September 22, 2016
Money doesnt grow on trees
Imagine a sixteen-year-old high school student who has been recently employed
for the first time, ecstatic that he will soon be making money on his own and feels

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Professor Bernard Luk
HIST 2710
04 December 2015
Book Report for Chinas Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
Chinas Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, written by Charles Benn, describes the daily life in Tang Dynasty in 12 differen

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Professor Bernard Luk
HIST 2710
04 December 2015
Film Report for Gonza the Spearman
Gonza the Spearman is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 1986. It won the
Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution in the 36th Berlin Internati

Japan from civil monarchy to feudalism
In 1500s, earliest European visitors to Japan recognized Japan institutions as similar to their own:
feudalism. Hence, this European term was pinned to Japanese history.
European Enlightenment view of feudalism befor

Confucian Revival and Gentry Society in Song China
Tang imperial power never completely restored from An Lushan rebellion
- late 800s CE: Peasant rebellions (food is not enough)
more power to general Fall of Tang dynasty
Second period of Division (907-9

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Professor Bernard LUK
HIST 2710
08 Oct 2015
the Tomb of General Zu Dashou
TheMing Tomb, which located at the entrance of Pavilion of Chinese Architecture,
is one of the earliest exhibits in Royal Ontario Museums collections, arriving in 1921. The
tomb c

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Professor Bernard Luk
HIST 2710
25 March 2016
Rice Farming and the Effects that It Brought to China's Politics and Economy in History
1. Rice Farming
1.1 an introduction to the rice
Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice, is the plant species most c

Korea and Vietnam: Development after separation from Chinese empire
China colonized Vietnam much longer than Korea. Following independence, the autonomous
developments of Korea and Vietnam Paralleled each other: Sinicized elites, Chinese model, script.
Bu

Neo-Confucian tradition in East Asia
To recapitulate:
Neo-Confucian orthodoxy in East Asia
- North Song scholars vegan to reformulate Confucianism:
rediscovery of the Way (teachings of COnfucius)
- South Song synthesis:
- Zhu Xi (1130-1200)
- commentaries

Early Vietnam, Early Korea
Looking beyond the Central Plains of the north China
Central Plains Zhong Yuan
Middle Kingdom Zhongguo
Sinocentric view of East Asian history:
Civilization began in Central Plains; barbarians in all four directions(si yi")became